Quotes by British Authors - Page 159

Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?
Shirley Hughes
Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.
J.K. Rowling
It comes and goes. People think if you're sick you become fearless and brave, but you don't. Most of the time it's like being stalked by a psycho, like I might get shot any second. But sometimes I forget for hours.''What makes you forget?''People. Doing stuff. When I was with you in the wood, I forgot for a whole afternoon.
Jenny Downham
I’d been given the hard stare by men a lot more dangerous than Donald Cole, men who would cut you up before breakfast then eat your heart and liver for lunch, and laugh with glee while they were doing it.
James Carol
Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
Jojo Moyes
for fear is all the blind future harrying us and when the scales drop away the fear goes too
Adam Roberts
Build a company you would never sell.
David Hieatt
Each day you’re given 86,400 seconds from the ‘Time Bank’. Everyone is given the same. There are no exceptions. Once you make your withdrawal, you’re free to spend it as you want. The ‘Time Bank’ won’t tell you how to spend it. Time poorly spent will not be replaced with more time. Time doesn’t do refunds.
David Hieatt
Treat distractions as the enemy. The internet is brilliant but it is one very efficient way of wasting your time.
David Hieatt
MEDIOCRITY IS A CHOICE... PROCRASTINATION IS A VIRUS THE FIRST ERROR IS INDECISION
Marsha Wright
Change the status quo or become it
Terence Mauri
You can be a leader, a follower or out of business.
Terence Mauri
Leadership is about we, not me.
Terence Mauri
The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else.
David Hieatt
Self-imposed insanely impossible deadlines often help.
David Hieatt
99% of businesses fail for one reason. They never start.
David Hieatt
Find a bigger enemy than just a rival brand. It can be bad design. It can be time. It can be pollution. It can be ugliness. It can be bad service. It can be landfill. It can be complexity. But pick your enemy well. It will drive you forward.
David Hieatt
The most important brands in the world make you feel something. They do that because they have something they want to change. And as customers, we want to be part of that change. These companies have a reason to exist over and above just to make a profit: They have a purpose. Yes, we admire the product they make. But the thing we love the most about them is the change they are making.
David Hieatt
Hot passion is a bit like infatuation – it burns brightly, but fades quickly.
David Hieatt
Cold passion’ is calm, considered and long lasting. Both the brain and the heart are working together. Emotions have been takenout of decision-making. And decisions are given time, looked at from all angles. Cold passion is much more effective at getting results.
David Hieatt
You will need to create a discipline where head and heart can bothbe involved in the decisions that you make. Taking the emotion out of something you feel very passionate about is far from easy. But easy don’t build great.
David Hieatt
Call your heroes. They have telephones too.
David Hieatt
WRITE YOUR BUSINESS PLAN ON A DOORMAT
David Hieatt
The best business models become role models for others.
David Hieatt
Don't rely on good principles to sell an inferior product.
David Hieatt
Rule No. 1. Make a great product. Rule No. 2. Don't forget rule No.1.
David Hieatt
Small budgets require brave ideas.
David Hieatt
Sleep is the multiplier of energy.
David Hieatt
A brand is a story. And you have to tell it well. The good news in this connected world great stories travel fast. And, these days, they travel for free. So there has never been a better time or a cheaper time to start something.
David Hieatt
There’s a point on a runway during take-o that a plane reaches V1 speed. Once it passes V1, it has reached the point of no return. The point where take-o cannot be aborted. It has to take o . Or crash. In order to determine its V1 speed every plane will factor in its weight, wind-speed, weather conditions, slope, length of runway etc. So although there’s not a physical line drawn on each runway, it’s there.
David Hieatt
Do one thing well. It's enough.
David Hieatt
Three factors must be present for meaningful organisational change to take place. These factors are_D= Dissatisfaction with how things are now. V= Vision of what is possible.F= First, concrete steps that can be takentowards the vision.If the product of these three factors is greater than R = Resistance then change is possible.
David Hieatt
Tomorrow your reputation has to be made again.
David Hieatt
Failure to commit is as bad as failure to start.
David Hieatt
The job of the brand is to make that nameand that logo stand for something. To live its founding principles each day. To stay true.
David Hieatt
It's a labour of love. And you are both the labour and the love.
David Hieatt
The only thing that matters is everything.
David Hieatt
Reputation takes decades to make. And can be lost in one tweet. Think about that before you press the send button.
David Hieatt
Great ideas often have no reference points.We have nothing to compare them to. They are original, and awkward. And so they are the most vulnerable to people trying to kill them. They do not conform to what exists, so they challenge us.
David Hieatt
Average dies quicker than ever before. Digital doesn't mess around. It's binary.
David Hieatt
teams build a business. Culture builds the team.
David Hieatt
Teams gather around change.
David Hieatt
If you run a business, 80% of your business probably comes from 20% of your customers. If you are a creative person, 80% of your awards/recognition/income will come from 20% of your output.
David Hieatt
Life is complicated. Sport is simple.
David Hieatt
To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a lightning technique. Nasrudin stepped out of the crowd: 'Very well, teach me – now.' The Fakir touched the Mulla's forehead, and said: 'Now go home immediately and read a book.' Half an our later Nasrudin was back in the market-place, clutching a book. The Fakir had gone on his way. 'Can you read now, Mulla?' the people asked him. 'Yes, I can read – but that is not the point. Where is that charlatan?' 'How can he be a charlatan if he has caused you to read without learning?' 'Because this book, which is authoritative, says: “All Fakirs are frauds”.
Idries Shah
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
Idries Shah
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
Idries Shah
Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.
Idries Shah
One day Lal shahbaz was wandering in the desert with his friend Sheikh Bhaa ud-Din Zakariya. It was winter, and evening time, so they began to build a fire to keep warm. They found some wood, but then they realised they had no fire. So Baha ud- Din suggested that Lal Shahbaz turn himself into a falcon and get fire from hell. Off he flew, but an hour later he came back empty handed. "There is no fire in hell," he reported. "Everyone who goes there brings their own fire, and their own pain, from this world.
William Dalrymple
Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven as they are both present inside this very moment. Why worry so much about the aftermath, an imaginary future, when this very moment is the only time we can truly and fully experience the presence and absence of God in our lives? Motivated by neither the fear of punishment nor the desire to be rewarded in heaven, Sufis love God simply because they love him.
Elif Shafak
For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a strategem.
Edward Young
It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
Idries Shah
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
Idries Shah
The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
Idries Shah
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
Idries Shah
Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
Idries Shah
Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.
Max McKeown
Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
Max McKeown
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
Max McKeown